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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close January 30 – March 1, 2011 821 stories · Vol. 11 · Catalogue 09 · Issue 60 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

How I Got Kicked Out of Y Combinator and Then Raised $1.5m for My Startup

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What dominated March

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    What Google knows about you

    5 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Business

    How to be 100% sure your startup idea is good

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Teaching programming languages: a novel approach

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 57 stories

  1. How I Got Kicked Out of Y Combinator and Then Raised $1.5m for My Startup

  2. Nokia CEO: Nokia is "standing on a burning platform"

  3. What I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Startups 4 Years Ago

  4. Random Startup Generator

Show 10 more
  1. Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice.

  2. Why I stopped travelling to the US and largely stopped doing business in the US

  3. Japan Airlines' CEO pays himself less than the pilots, takes the bus to work

  4. UBS Whistleblower Finds Himself in Federal Prison

  5. How to be 100% sure your startup idea is good

  6. Should You Really Be A Startup Entrepreneur?

  7. Why Non-engineers Think Engineers Are Better Off Joining Startups

  8. Why business analysts and project managers get higher salaries than programmers?

  9. Why Isn't Wall Street in Jail?

  10. WooMe: TechCrunch40 Finalist, $20 Million In Funding – And One Huge Scam

Sports 32 stories

  1. Nokia to developers: no Qt for Windows Phone development

  2. Linus Torvalds: Pearls before swine

Show 6 more
  1. Canadians Just Became World's Biggest Internet Losers.

  2. You win, RIM (An open letter to RIM's developer relations)

  3. Jeopardy Champion Ken Jennings Q&A about IBM Watson

  4. Homeowner forecloses on Wells Fargo office, becomes folk hero

  5. What is the single most influential book every programmer should read?

  6. Google Forecloses on Content Farms with "Farmer" Algorithm Update

Technology 580 stories

  1. Google 2000 vs. Google 2011

  2. Libya Shuts Down Internet

  3. Google rolls out algorithm change in the US

Show 9 more
  1. Greplin (YC W10) Grabs $4 Million From Sequoia For Social Search

  2. Towards Better Online Dating

  3. Microsoft just bought Nokia for $0

  4. Why Plenty Of Fish Stores Passwords in Plain Text

  5. World's first embeddable HTML5 document viewer, from Crocodoc (YC W10)

  6. How We Made Github Fast (2009)

  7. Money Won’t Buy You Health Insurance

  8. Pictures of kittens for use as placeholders in your designs or code

  9. Man with ALS writes patch for Gnome using morse code (with touching story)

Entertainment 27 stories

  1. Show HN: Our new $149 hackable Bluetooth wristwatch

  2. Show HN: HackerBooks.com

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: My 4-hour project, already profitable

  2. Last.fm co-founder: Apple just fucked over online music subs for the iPhone

  3. Show HN: Breakup Notifier

  4. How I made an HDTV antenna so I could watch Jeopardy last night

  5. Super Awesome Sylvia shows super simple Arduino

  6. Show HN: SiteSupport.com - Remote Desktop For Webbased Applications

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